It's low impact, but the opportunity cost of playing it over a land is low.
Low opportunity cost to slot in a deck, but high opportunity to take up a cube slot, IMO. Constructed is really able to maximize this and the black equivalent since it gives them more colored cards to pitch to FoW / Grief, extra shuffle for Brainstorm, extra reanimation target, you'll always have the right dual to fetch for, can get Mystic Sanctuary, etc. Without maximizing the benefits, this just feels like a lot of low impact fluff like a lot of the MDFCs. Perfectly fine cards in their own right, but I've been trying to maximize more interesting cards / things that help out specific archetypes more. This really doesn't help towards those goals.
This basically sums it up.
Lórien Revealed is a good card and all, but in a higher-powered environment it feels like filler. Lórien Revealed does not pull me into blue nor control. It will make my main deck if I didn't draft better cards, but I'd rather just run cantrips and Mystic Confluence.
Low deck-building cost, high cube-slot cost like steve_man said.
This card has been playing well. Last night it completely shut-down my opponent's Sylvan Library and prevented them from cracking any Clues generated by Tireless Tracker.
I see you cut Jace, Mirror Mage for Jace Beleren. Did you find Beleren better or did you add it back in because of the mill card from CMR? I've had Mirror Mage in my cube for a while, but haven't gotten a lot of reps with him. My gut says Jace Beleren is the superior card.
RB draws you a card and lets you almost assuredly cast whatever you want the following turn. EG is good if you want to push a more aggressive midrange strategy. It's a great follow-up to a Deranged Hermit or Deep-Forest Hermit and can win on the spot, but it does take some set-up.
Terastodon is better the more nonland permanents you need to deal with. In my Powered 540 there are tons of prime artifacts, enchantments, and planeswalkers this gets to answer. The other two are fine, but definitely belong in lower powered cubes.
The 3 toughness on Gisela really killed it for me, dying to every burn spell along with the usual spot removal. LB is very powerful in environments which support persist combos and such, and is pretty good outside those environments. It can make your opponent think twice about blocking and it can provide some Wrath protection for your white aggro decks.
Spectral Procession, unless you are supporting Knights, Enchantments-matter, or other relevant archetypes.
I play Spectral Procession in my Modern & Powered Cubes and History of Benalia in my Standard Cube. History is a great card in that cube because I have a Knights-theme, and the meta is slower. Remember, you need 3 turns to eek out all that value. Spectral Procession is generically more powerful and more desirable by more decks.
Currently running Academy Ruins, but I've yet to see it in action. My head says Probe because it is generally more desirable, but artifact synergies...
It's a bit slow, but the payoff is huge. It's a slam-dunk in my Extended-Standard 360 and Modernish 360 cubes, and is great in my Vintage-Powered 540 which supports the Artifact decks.
I felt bad about cutting it because of all the synergies (Vampire, Madness, 3-power for aggro, card draw!), but in practice it never pulled its weight. I forget which card I replaced it with (Nezumi Graverobber or Order of Midnight, I run the former in my Modern, the latter in all 3 of my Cubes). Order of Midnight is the most direct replacement as it contributes to Black-Aggro and provides a card-advantage option. Nezumi Graverobber is a card I enjoy in my Modernish Cube as one of the few maindeckable pieces of graveyard-hate. It also has the possibility of reanimating stuff, which is hard to come by efficiently in Modern.
I'm playing this guy over Gisela, the Broken Blade in my Modernish 360 Cube mainly as a white-weenie curve-topper as I don't support combo-play, but I'm excited to see how else people use this card. My general philosophy for supporting colors is play to their strengths while also trying to shore-up their weaknesses. Wrath-effects are a core component in control decks so I run all of the usual, modern-legal ones at 360 giving it a density. Wraths are the bane of white-weenie strategies and this card can help that deck in this match-up.
This basically sums it up.
Lórien Revealed is a good card and all, but in a higher-powered environment it feels like filler. Lórien Revealed does not pull me into blue nor control. It will make my main deck if I didn't draft better cards, but I'd rather just run cantrips and Mystic Confluence.
Low deck-building cost, high cube-slot cost like steve_man said.
I support U Tempo, which often slots in a UB deck containing complimentary cards like Ertai Resurrected, Orcish Bowmasters, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Timetwister, Arcane Denial, etc.
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Jacob
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Jacob
Regal Behemoth >= Earthshaker Giant > Greenwarden of Murasa
RB draws you a card and lets you almost assuredly cast whatever you want the following turn. EG is good if you want to push a more aggressive midrange strategy. It's a great follow-up to a Deranged Hermit or Deep-Forest Hermit and can win on the spot, but it does take some set-up.
Terastodon > End-Raze Forerunner > Avenger of Zendikar
Terastodon is better the more nonland permanents you need to deal with. In my Powered 540 there are tons of prime artifacts, enchantments, and planeswalkers this gets to answer. The other two are fine, but definitely belong in lower powered cubes.
Luminous Broodmoth > Gisela, the Broken Blade
The 3 toughness on Gisela really killed it for me, dying to every burn spell along with the usual spot removal. LB is very powerful in environments which support persist combos and such, and is pretty good outside those environments. It can make your opponent think twice about blocking and it can provide some Wrath protection for your white aggro decks.
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger >= Vial Smasher the Fierce
Kroxa is great if you can combo, otherwise Vial Smasher is the better general card. Outside of the combo, I probably wouldn't run either.
Fall from Favor > Court of Cunning
Fall from Favor has board impact and is easier to cast.
Wall of Roots > Tangled Florahedron
Go for the Throat for sure, then Liliana's Triumph if you're in a high-powered environment where you will often see single, giant monsters / Eldrazi, otherwise Hagra Mauling.
I play Spectral Procession in my Modern & Powered Cubes and History of Benalia in my Standard Cube. History is a great card in that cube because I have a Knights-theme, and the meta is slower. Remember, you need 3 turns to eek out all that value. Spectral Procession is generically more powerful and more desirable by more decks.
Gitaxian Probe vs. Academy Ruins
Currently running Academy Ruins, but I've yet to see it in action. My head says Probe because it is generally more desirable, but artifact synergies...
Teferi, Master of Time
Disenchant vs. Seal of Cleansing